Using MONARK's presets and history

- So MONARK is actually one of Native Instruments'…only forays into analog modeling.…Those of you who are familiar with many…of the Native Instruments flagship synthesizers…like Massive and Absynth and FM8,…and even a lot of the stuff in Reactor,…their bag tends to be more cutting edge digital synthesis…and sound design, high tech stuff.…However, MONARK is a really cool analog modeling synthesizer…that sounds a whole lot like a Minimoog,…in fact it's based on the Minimoog.…Now the Minimoog was the first…commercially available portable synthesizer.…

Before then synthesizers were giant modular interfaces…that were as big as a refrigerator, which are still…a lot of fun to play with, but what the Minimoog allowed…people to do was have a synthesizer in their home.…The synthesizers became a little bit more ubiquitous…because of the Minimoog.…Now it wasn't just its portability that was great.…It was also the filters, it was the oscillators.…They had great sounds to them, and it was…the flexibility of its semi-modular interface.…

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12/19/2015

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10/16/2015

Everyone uses Native Instruments virtual instruments in their productions, regardless of their DAW. This course will show how to take advantage of the advanced instruments and effects in REAKTOR, including MONARK, PRISM, and THE FINGER. Your guide, Evan Sutton, provides an overview of synthesizer history (and which synthesizers of the past have been resurrected in REAKTOR), and reviews new approaches to effects and live performance and programming in REAKTOR.